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List of 2010 MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant' recipients

The following 23 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the
next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation:

- Amir Abo-Shaeer, 38, public school teacher, Goleta, Calif.
Inspiring and preparing public high school students for careers in
science and mathematics through an innovative curriculum that
integrates applied physics, engineering and robotics.

- Jessie Little Doe Baird, 46, language preservationist, Mashpee,
Mass. Reviving a long-silent language and restoring to her Native
American community a vital sense of its cultural heritage and to
the nation a link to its complex past.

- Nicholas Benson, 46, stone carver, Newport, R.I. Preserving the
legacy of a centuries-old artistic tradition and expanding the art
of hand letter carving with the beauty and craftsmanship of his own
designs.

- Matthew Carter, 72, type designer, Cambridge, Mass. Crafting
letterforms of unequaled elegance and precision for a range of
applications and media that span the migration of text from the
printed page to computer screens.

- David Cromer, 45, theater director, New York. Reinvigorating
classic American plays with a spirit and urgency that eschews
nostalgia and provides audiences with unexpectedly fresh and
compelling theatrical experiences.

- John Dabiri, 30, biophysicist, Pasadena, Calif. Investigating
the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion, which has profound
implications for understanding evolutionary adaptation and such
related issues in fluid dynamics as blood flow in the human heart.

- Shannon Lee Dawdy, 43, anthropologist, Chicago. Combining
archaeological scholarship with historical preservation to reveal
the dynamics of intellectual and social life in New Orleans from
its establishment as a French colony to the present day.

- Annette Gordon-Reed, 51, historian, Cambridge, Mass. Enriching
understanding of colonial and early American interracial relations
by disentangling the complicated history of two distinct founding
families.

- Michal Lipson, 40, optical physicist, Ithaca, N.Y. Working at
the intersection of fundamental photonics and nanofabrication
engineering to design silicon-based photonics circuits that are
paving the way for practical optical computing devices.

- Jorge Pardo, 47, installation artist, Los Angeles. Challenging
the distinction between fine art and design, as well as the
constraints of museum and gallery spaces, with visually seductive
works at the intersection of painting, sculpture and architecture.

- Sebastian Ruth, 35, violist, violinist and music educator,
Providence, R.I. Providing richly rewarding musical experiences and
education for urban youth and their families while forging new
roles beyond the concert hall for the 21st-century musician.

- Marla Spivak, 55, entomologist, St. Paul, Minn. Protecting one
of the world's most important pollinators - the honey bee - from
decimation by disease while making important contributions to the
understanding of bee biology.